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V V *fsERIAI~^ L STORY J ??>e 5 J \ Women's j J Candidate \ s y v j 8 8 \ ? 0 4 2 Hy BYRON WILLIAMS 5 J =========== ^ MWBBTOggiaBBBBgBra! C?v?rigbl 1813. W?t*m N?wami>?* L uImu SYNOPSiS. In a spirit of fun Mayor Rcdtght. a Mummer visitor. Is chased through the woods by ten laughing girls. one of whom he catches ami kisses. The girls form themselves Into a court and sentence him to do the bidding of one of their number each day for ten days. A legislative measure opposing woman suffrage, which dropped from tho mayor's pocket. Is used to compel him to obey the mandates of the girls. His first day of service Is with May Andrews, who takes him fishing. They are threatened by the sheriff with arrest. Miss Vlnlng sees what she con* sliders a clandestine meeting between one of the girls and the mayor. The next day he goes driving with Mabel Arney. They meet with an accident, are arrested and locked up. but escape. The mayor returns to the hotel, finds the sheriff waiting for him. and takes refuge In the room of Iless Winters. He plans to get possession of tho Incriminating bill. With Harriet Brooks the mayor goes to Investigate an Indian mound. They are caught In a thunder storm. Returning late, he lias rather a stormy Interview with "Judge" Vlnlng. who seeks to find out who returned to the hotel with him. CHAPTER IX. When Miss Jackie Vlnlng went to her room after her unsatisfactory attempt to wring from Bedlght the name of the unconventional young woman who walked with him In the moonlight, she was angry. And It is possible that, knowing his feelings toward her she was angrier still because with this Influence she could not secure the confession she sought. It Is likewise true that she felt In her heart that Bedlght was right In protecting the name of the girl and should be eulogized rather than scourged for It ?and yet. when a man has almost told a woman he loves her. she has a right to expect that he will do almost anything quasi-reasonable that she asks of him. Failing to handle him augurs complications for the future. ^ And most of us are alike In this. that we love to appear melodramatic to ourselves, doing all sorts of drastic things that, slept over, we undo, saying things that we inflate with self at the time being and stick a pin Into later when our ardor has cooled. In this mood Jackie Vining seated herself at a small writing desk in her room and Indited the following letter to the chairman of the woman's clubs in Bedight'8 district: "Squirrel Inn, Wis. "My Dear Madam: The campaign in your district Is about to open. Among the candidates Is one Walter Bedlght, who is running for the legislature. He will endeavor to secure the women's votes of the district. While running a race near Squirrel Inn he dropped from his pocket the Inclosed bill, which he expects to introduce, If elected. "I feel it my duty to apprise you of the real character of the man and tPllot O Vft.. nrlll oa? aaaa.AI^^I.. x t uim vnut j \ju n u i uv.i (icLUI Uill?iy "Sincerely. "(Miss) JACKIE VINING." Placing the letter and the bill In a long envelope, Bhe laid the package on her dresser and retired. But with the cool touch of the linen and the luxury of full repose, Jackie's heart smote her. "Well, anyhow," she mused, ns she dropped off to sleep, "I'll hold the letter a few days longer." To be In the toils of a state's attorney Is bad enough In any event; but If the aforesaid attorney Is a woman, oh, most unfortunate Is the man! Thursday was Mayor Hedight's day of attendance upon Margaret Farnsworth, who prosecuted the case against him on the morning of his arrival. She entered the arena after an earnest conference with * Judge" Vlnlng, who seemed unusually distrait and worried. "Mr. Bedight," began the lady attorney, tn a professional tone, "I want to get some balsam for a pillow this morning. Do you know the tree when you see it?" i (?b?i v<j neon in the North Woods on many a vacation and am familiar with the flora and fauna of the country. I am at your service," responded the mayor. They sot out on foot along a pathway that led into the wood. Once inside the forest It wound in a trail like that the calf made, through spruce and hemlock, poplar and maple, with now and then a white birch adding a " touch of vivid contrast to the green. The girl, an enthusiast, was walking ahead and babbling of the nature pictures along the way. Suddenly Itedight felt something I hit hltn in the back, as though a pel- i let thrown trom close range. He turned inquiringly. From a clump of | brush along the trull a woman's hand waved st him and a white paper fluttered to the path. Turning, the mayor retraced his steps. The messenger crouched low and Bedlght, having secured the message, touched hla fln \ leers to his lips and wafted her a salutation, chaste and replete with appreciation. And then from ahead came the surprised call of Miss Farnsworth. "Hurry!" cautioned a voice from behind the clump of greenery. "Coming," cried Bedlght, turning and forging ahead through the wood. A pair of pheasants arose with drumming whirr from beBlde the path. "There!" exclaimed the mayor, accepting the birds us the foundation for a clever ruse, "you've frightened them away." "Oh, why didn't you tell me?" reproached the girl, getting a fleeting glance of tho brown beauties as they floated off through the trees. Tl~.!?..!. lit- _ a * wini ina note ciuirnea in i his hand, made reasonable apologies | for his thoughtlessness and the girl. \ unsuspecting, led on. chattering delightedly. It was a day of days to bo i in the wood and youth is ever buoyant , and gay. Plainly the girl was In tune with the mood of the time and j the place, nnd like the beatitudes ] about her. sought to be congenial and natural. The man felt himself pleased with her, for he, too, loved the solitude and the harmonies of the forest. Presently she sighted a scarlet tannger and ran ahead. Bedight. waiting for the opportunity, unfolded the slip of paper. In a woman's handwriting this warning was written: "BE CAREFUL. SUE IS TRYING TO TRAP YOU." Bedight smiled and tucked the note In his pocket. Miss Farnsworth was sitting upon a fallen monarch of the wood when he caught up with her. In her hands she held a lichen that had taken her fancy. Of the party at Mine Host's hotel, no girl was prettier than Margnret Farnsworth and few as Intellectual. Vivacity and spirit predominated and ns Bedight looked at her he did not belittle her ability to make things Interesting for him. She sprang to her feet ns he drew near, and ran after a big brown butterfly. Bedight sat down on the log and waited. Suddenly he heard a scream, the voice of a woman in pain. wish rarnswortn sat upon 'ne ground holding her ankle In both hands. Her Hps were tightly drawn and her face pave evidence of pain. "What Is It?" questioned Bedlght, apprehensively, going up to her and taking hold of her arm. "Help me to stand," she directed, gripping his arm. He raised her. She let her foot touch the ground, winced and toppled toward him. "There's a wood chopper's cabin Just ahead," she groaned. "Could? could you carry me there?" blushing. For answer he picked her up In his arms. She threw her arms about his neck and clung to him, her hair brushing his cheek. In sight of the hut she whispered: "Walt! Let me down a minute." She stood leaning against him. her full, ripe lips teasingly near. For a moment as he looked Into her fathomless eyes, Bedlght felt the weakness of man for woman coming over him. To combat It, he moved farther away, supporting her at arm's length. "It would be well to leaVe me at the cottage and go back for help Look Inside, please, while I lean against this birch," she directed. "There's probably a burglar In the woodbox or a man under the bed," he said laughingly, as he started toward the cottage. The mayor stood for a moment upon the threshold and then entered. As his form disappeared within, there appeared around the corner of the no Kin n man iho ooma nm i?/4 ?? o# Lakeville. In a twinkling he had slammed shut the door and thrown a great bar across It from without. "There, darn ye; I told ye I'd git ye!" he bellowed with radiant pomposity, Itedlght turned angrily ns the door closed and realized too late that the warning given along the trail had not safeguarded him. He was a prisoner. Peering through the dirty windowpane, an aperturd not large enough to permit the passing of a man's body. " - V\ . V v"-., \ \ > Molly McConnell. he saw Miss Farnsworth leave the tree against which she had been leaning and walk leisurely toward the hotel. With the realization that the girl had deliberately led him into the hands of the enemy, he gritted his teeth and then, at the thought that perhaps Jackie Vluing had planned this coup de main. Bedight felt a queer sinking of certain hope* that heretofore had buoyed up a heart yearning to take high hurdles. No? j a woman may keep a man in hot water on general principles of lova, but to throw him in jail is treachery, and vhen a woman reaches that point she a like the womnn scorned?a perfect ury. The room In which Bedlght found ! limself was big and rough like some )f the words the mayor said before lis sense of the ludicrous returned; Then. In full possession of the humor >f the situation, he sat down on the ilde of the bunk and grinned. A man %an grin when the Joke is on him. but le seldom becomes hoisterous under . die circumstances unless he is in pubic, where it is always good taste to [>rove his good fellowship by blatant i aughter. That the game warden had gone for tieip mere was no doubt. Remembering tho slap which Bedlght had administered on the day of their first meeting, that worthy did not desire to take further chances. "Hut if Miss Vining planned the trap, why did not the warden bring enough help with him to arrest me?" 1 This was the question the mayor asked himself?and gave It up. He had no way of knowing that the warden had sent word to the sheriff to be on hand?but that functionary was at the moment marooned on an island five miles from the village with ample food sent by a kind providence in the light of the moon, but with no boat by which he might navigate the intervening waters. An hour passed, during which time Bedight had satisfied himself that wood choppers' cabins in general and this one In particular were built with the express purpose of being better Jails thnn those possessed by the ordinary hamlet in the north country He was securely confined?and he was In to stay until some one chose to liberato him. A voice from without suddenly gave faV w^m ^fL>, ^ ?z| \ zL 1- i Miss Farnsworth Sat Holding Her Ankle in Both Hands. him hope. It was a voice he knew well?the voice of Jackie Vlning. "Mr. Bedlght," queried the voice, "are you there?inside the cabin?" "No, Miss Conspirator," replied the mayor, vindictively, "I'm up on the roof playing solitaire." "Will you tell me which of the girls was with you last night?" demanded Miss Vlnlng. "If so, I will let you out." "Oh. I like tt In hero," replied the mayor, enthusiastically. "It's a nice, quiet place, no hooks to bait, no mound builders to excavate, no runaway horses to catch, no balsam to pick, nothing to do hut relax and think of the perfidy of one's fellows? feminine gender." "I'm glad you like it," responded the "Judge," with a wholesome flavor in her voice, "and I'm sorry to advise you that the warden and reinforcements are about due. Wouldn't it be< wiser to help ire protect a thoughtless girl and go free than to be contrary and go to Jail?" "1 like the Jail at T.akeville even b? t?J ter than this," responded the prison*,, affably. "It is light nnd airy and ha easy exits in case of tire or ennui." "Very well," she replied, "repent . leisure." The mayor listened. She was fing away. "Miss Vlr.ing," she cried. "Yes, Mr. Hedlght." "You know very well you would esptse me if 1 told you what you re asking. I am tlrm in my resolve ot to appear in this light. You majas well go now, for I shall not ansf'T your question." He watched her lithe form as 'j?e walked rapidly away, her head eCL her shoulders back, every in<, a splendid woman. scarcely nun bih* uisnppearen v Hedight heard the bar thrown h k and a voire whispered eautlousl./ "Walter! Walter! The door iff n barred. Wait until F net away! * From his dingy window Ik h' saw another feminine form sj,/.ej leisurely up the trail ?and thh./n too. waa slim and fair to look i on a woman that any good man /gh well desire to win. (TO DR C'ONTINTTRP).) ? Filibuster. ^ "What did George say when J ro> fused him?" "He wildly decla^ he v.ould go right down to one /hose Central American states, staifn up rising and horrify the world, hen h rushed from the house." "Did!11 name of the Central American br/ sound like rathskeller?" "I'm not sur' "Well, there's where he went. Ancie, start : , ed tho uprising by breaklngw) tnlr rors, tipping over the bar nd floor , ing the proprietor with a lull XIV table leg Whereupon the ult-r hor , rifled the world by picking Im lp an4 dropping him on a passing tah cart." ?Cleveland Plain Dealer. ; r tl 4 WEstToi < tUbs of the military academy i nov. i .|?rhapa have they evoked groi the ii Arican army, as may be set | EN DOOMI Spanish Prime Minister Foretold His Own Death. Wonclcrjl Prognostications of Mnhmoud, an Egyptian Astrologer. Wee Verified, When Bourtos Pasha Was Slain. I .on dm?"1 know that I am condemns to death, because 1 possess ( positiv Information that two anarchists lave taken an oath to kill me. 1 kno", f.irther, that the anarchist who li to take my life is a man who was hnished from Buenos Aires, and mm fi went mt'nce to I'arls and Iliarri/.. after which the police lost ! trace >t" hiin." So spoke the late Senor Canalejas. the Danish prime minister, on Nov. 8. 192. in a conversation with an intimae friend, and four days later he was shot dead by nn assassin while lootaig in at the window of a book shot t must be a terrible strain on neves and pluck to feel, as so many hvl done, that the sword hangs over tie head, suspended, an It w ere, by a b lgle hair. 1 it such has been the fate of morn I th:i one public man during the past 1 fe^ years, and of scores In earlier | dais. { n February. 1910, Sheik Mahmoud. a [veil known Egyptian astrologer, wjnt to Iloutros I'asha. prime minister olEgypt, and told hint that he foreaiv his deAth at the hands of an as:^?sln Iloutros believed the prophecy ad as every one knows, was foully tlirdered a few months later. It Is worth mentioning that MahJoud put in print a prediction of the path of King Edward three months ofore It occurred. He said that it jould come to pass in May. Hy (he way. he also foretold In 1910 lhat King George of Greece would nntex three Turkish cities. This also ruin trim I w v* Willi** on the subject of Turkey and 'trie east, we may say that the late AMERICAN HIDES FOR KING Pennsylvania Tannery Gets Rush Orders for Sole Leather to Go to England. Warren. Pa.- A company has Issued an order to a tannery at Clarendon to rush work and put on all the men that can he obtained to complete within forty days a special order for 1,200 King George V. sides of fine solo leather to he shipped to London This tanned leather Is for the use of the manufacturer who supplies King George, and Is for his exclusive use and for the supplies that are need ed for the current year for the royal family and its household. ) NT CADETS MADE FINE MjMM mm - AM "" > V "V: v&Ac ^::'; it West Point always are cheered when l iter enthusiasm than during the inaugt n in the photograph, made a most eCfec ed^bFfate~1 King Alexander of Servia fully believed that ho would meet with a violent death. Years earlier, in fact, when King Milan. Alexander's father, was on the throne, a Servian peasant predicted that Milan's reign would be one of many misfortunes, thnt he would wage I an unsuccessful war. that he would marry, have one son and then be divorced He ended by prophesying a violent death for the son. Alexander, realizing how true the rest of the predictions had been, frequently spoke to his Intimates of his coming end. hut ho could hardly have expected that it would have been attended by such horrors as were actu j ally the case. Of all modem stories of doom, none Is so terrible ns that of the Austrian noble family of Vetzera. The name will be familiar to all readers, because of the Baroness Marie Vetzera. for love of whom the Crown Prince Rudolf killed himself Every member of that family was beautiful and Rifted, yet for generations ill-fate doRged them and none died a nntural death. Marie, It is believed, poisoned herself with strychnine, her brother, a tine younR officer, was burnt to death in the awful conflagration at the Ring theater; the father. Baron Vetzera. fell dead of sunstroke in a Cairo street. Finally, Jennne, countess of Bylandt. one of the most beautiful and accomplished women who ever lived, died suddenly In Rome, i Poison caused her death, but whether administered Inteutlonally or not none can say. PI YFR RFTQ MPUf AID DCPflDn . wu u Kkfi nil! IILKUnU Aviator Gilpatrlck, With Feminine Passenger, Reaches 5,009 Feet Above Los Angeles. I^m Angeles. Cal.?With MIhb Margaret Stahl of Jersey City, N. J., as a passenger in his De Perdussln monoplane. John Guy Gilpatrlck. the : youngest aviator in the world, again W1LL~A1D i Five Hour Day Is Asked Workers in Massachusetts. To Lead Country Again If Measure Pending in the Legislature Is Passed?Other States Aid Reform. New York.?Massachusetts will again lead the country In one part of its child labor laws, according to the national child labor committee, if the bill to reduce the hours of work for all under sixteen years becomes law. Massachusetts now has a tenhour day for workers under sixteen, which it is proposed to reduce at one step to a live-hour day, with the requirement that all child workers under sixteen shall attend a part time day school. Other states, meanwhile, are won- I doring if they can establish the eight- i hour day, and definite carnDaicns for ! this end are on in Arkansas. Call- I fornla, New Hampshire, Pennsyl- J vania, Texas, West Virginia and elsewhere. The committee points out that the bills which have already been Intro- 1 duced In Pennsylvania, Delaware and Texas all Include the regulation of street trades provided In the uniform child labor law. This allowi no newsboy under j twelve years and no other street trader under fourteen. It also forbids all girls to engage In these occupations before they are sixteen years old. New York, under the recommendation of the state factory Investigating commission, Is considering bills not only to prohibit child labor In cant ?*^ ^ w >y ^JWIBfftsi?BBBaBlff ^J| Lhey mako a public appearance, but iral parade. These future officers of :tlve showing. broke the American passenger carrying altitude record. Starting from Fairfax park, the machine reached its highest altitude of 5,001) feet directly over the heart of Los Angeles. > * The record, however, will not be 1 considered official. because Gilpatri'ck's previous record of 4,660 feet \Vus not exceeded by 500 feet, as required by the rules of the International Aeronautical federation. STRAUS, OIL MAN'S NEIGHBOR Former American Ambassador to Turkey Buys a Farm Near Tarrytown, *N. Y. Tarrytown, N. Y.?Oscar S. Straus, former ambassador to Turkey and , recently the progressive candidate for governor of New York state, is to es1 tuhllah hlmoolf V* ?? ? a u.u.?si> uci c od u uiuob aeigna\ Oscar S. Straus. bor to John D. Rockefeller. He has I nougnr. tne Morton farm, between here and Pleasantvllle. which Is one of the 1 oldest estates In this section. It consists of about eighty acres, for which Mr Straus Is said to have paid $55,000. Mr. Straus said he was! going to build a simple summer home. CHILDREN J 1 nerloB and tenements, but to reorganize the factory Inspection departi ment as an Industrial commission | with a greatly increased staff of Inspectors. Delaware, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina and others are also talking of measures to make more efficient their departments of inspection. I In many states, minimum wage boards, pensions for widowed mothers, prohibition of night work and methods of determining age of children seeking employment are under discussion. New Hampshire and some of the ? routhern states will probably raise the ago limit for working children from twelve to fourteen years, and It is hoped that a child labor law for territories will be presented to congress. A compulsory school attendance law has beer, introduced In the North Carolina legislature, and bills are t'.Iked of in Sonfh e?~.n? ? ? umunii?, i enncs6ee and Texas. DAY OFF PLAN FOR DOCTORS Berlin Physicians to Try a Scheme to Gain a Reat?Only Few Are Berlin.?A scheme, which haa long been considered by Berlin physicians, Is to be tried out, in the Moabit dls- ' trlct, when certain doctors will be appointed to answer all calls between noon and midnight on Sunday. It Is planned to hare different physicians serve each Sunday to the end that others may have a rest one day In the week. If It works out well It will probably be extended to the whole mm